german history. in this. darkness has fallen and it's still peaceful and have remained so for your sakes my grandchildren. the berlin wall our family and us starts a new member 60 on d.w. . yes we want to survive on this planet if we don't say that now it will be too late in the space for over a year young people the world over have been organizing school strikes demanding immediate action to stop climate change. the star of the movement sailed across the

atlantic to take her message to the u.s. but not everyone's on board let us say in my opinion they should strike at the weekend but during school hours. in europe the young activists spent their summer vacation building networks discussing it formulating their shared values and core demands. 16 year old funk ahem bliss from berlin has been active in fridays for a future movement for 6 months school's out for the summer but she's been up since 6 o'clock. with and her friend emile are heading to dortmund in western germany to take part in a friday's for a future summer congress. they met on a strike. this is a good thing. they're

on their way to the station like all the young environmental activists in the movement they make a point of never flying and only travel by bus or by train. throughout the summer climate camps are taking place all over europe including in poland the czech republic italy and germany. 1400 activists are attending the congress in dortmund. they start the day with a quick breakfast they're on a tight schedule the 1st panels and workshops are kicking off at 9 am sharp. as i'm not talking about how to ask if she could help but she disappeared off a chair well i'm not helping i don't want any porridge. which there are now $600.00 local chapters of friday's for future in germany they're connected on social media

but the dortmund summit is the 1st time they've all come together and met in person . it's been an organizational feat. of if is ultimately supporters are going to make this is the reason we've made a big effort to be as professional as possible into high think we're doing very well we all have bracelets set everything up. make sure that everyone knows what their job is and that they do it properly ma. says. that's just because he's of course and i and i don't know what it's like at a professional congress but i feel we've achieved a level of professionalism that's actually very impressive. by and focused on. the congress is also about. building networks.

has met 16 year old from switzerland. the organizers have invited christophe schmidt to take part in a panel about carbon tax the chairman of the german council of economic experts he advises the german government on carbon pricing. and it's a misconception you you just have just read that it was $22.00 degrees celsius in greenland yesterday and within just 24 hours 12000000 tons of ice melted we want to know what we can do to stop this happening to prevent temperatures from continuing to rise. and a carbon tax is one proposal that comes up again and again. as you said people are miserly and that's why pricing works. like this there's some things free it's not worth anything in the atmosphere is used as a free dumping ground for carbon emissions there's no global cost applied to this and that's why it's overused. believes that carbon pricing would make the german

government stick to its climate targets. but with the general public accept it. fridays for future is calling on the government to introduce a $180.00 euro tax on each metric ton of c o 2 in europe per capita c o 2 emissions are $8.00 tonnes a year so everyone would have to pay $1512.00 euros in carbon tax schmidt says that's too much. the maximum tax the public would accept it would be 40 euros per tonne. and people would also need incentives if they make environmentally friendly choices such as not driving or not flying for example they could claim a reimbursement that the main issue schmidt says is raising awareness. seeing this a lot of the statistics floating around are made up so it's important that the issues in the background are properly understood to. 20 to teach. the

students want solutions that work and they want them now. they ask a lot of questions lina is interested in the international context you. can mandate so it's what's the best way of moving ahead locally with a carbon tax obviously every country has to agree on it it's no use doing nothing just sitting tight and waiting to see what other countries do to test and my mom didn't choose if you we would already be doing a lot if we achieve the targets agreed within the e.u. that would be an important step if europe china and the u.s. were all on board by 2030 or he's huge step so we can force suitors to act it's not for us to persuade them that it's worth it. it's. the stuff can i say just what other countries do is not the issue switzerland germany whatever have a responsibility. saying i'll only do it if you do it it's just childish of us must

do this and fast came this sent us. other countries are always being used as an excuse. this will only do it if you do it attitude gets us nowhere if that's what all countries do then all that happens is what's happening now nothing it's the fridays for future activists refused to compromise in their demands so far the movement has been a loose collection of disparate groups the head of the summer congress 18 year old jaco blasdell founded the organization organized future which manages the events budget of $200000.00 euros made up of participant contributions and donations and of identifies all income no individual can be liable for the vent involving $1400.00 people but if i end up we found an association so we could take out liability insurance let's go bankrupt it allows us to sign proper contracts. for the global climate strike in may we were at the movement within survive the summer

in germany malevolent activities all those worries weren't followed but we felt we had to do something with something excite. that would unify the movement and raise its profile in the media. we decided to organize congress stuff brought everyone together and demonstrate the combined force of the movement by the poet is a very good art of. the fridays for future movement is active in over $100.00 countries. it's also expanded into eastern european countries. 2 and poland around $700.00 young activists are taking part in a summer camp halfway between post and warsaw. that i was. this is the competition. all the organizations and movements that are here phoned in just a short space of time with. the kind of compassion we've got extinction

rebellion which now exist all over europe is what i was thinking about it later the school strike which i belong to and for future poland and these guys are with come for climate action which organize the event yesterday i was lucky not to go to israel is how it's over that way again. 17 year old antonio michel goes to school in warsaw he's been organizing the school strikes in the polish capital for nearly a year and poland the issue of climate change doesn't get much attention. at the jug a few at school. i learnt a bit about the climate i would works and how it's changing. so there's not much discussion in the polish media. but also did french at school and i read articles in french in english and in spanish. i only learnt about the

terrible state of the climate from the foreign media and the. poland's populist right wing government only recently knowledge that human activity is a key driver of climate change. only 15 members of the polish chapter of friday's for future are attending the camp many are put off by the fact the event is being closely monitored by police. she told the friend the report the. status that i was on early morning juicy and it was really funny business the best time because the cops come along at 5 yes. they look to the left to the right and drive past you in this really the monstrous of way. the place is crawling with them. so i know what we're going to do tomorrow. it's going to be hard to miss the museum much of a chest. the activists are planning a protest tomorrow that demonstration has been officially registered with the

authorities but another secret protest is also scheduled. cameras aren't allowed at this meeting. the police are out in full force on the. testers start gathering the next day. you know to put it. that they're heading for the town of coney an hour's drive away it's close to an open pit lignite mine. that is the back of their fellows lots of coal mining in poland that this here is the worst kind. of mining. it's highly toxic that's. the other problem is that many mines in poland i do love to take it and i'm it's

a lot of pollutants over there is the mind. 84 percent of poland's electricity comes from fossil fuels such as coal and like night and just 14 percent from renewable energies in comparison 50 percent of electricity in germany is generated from fossil fuels 33 percent from renewable energies and 12 percent from nuclear power and france only 10 percent is derived from fossil fuels 18 percent from renewable energies and 72 percent from nuclear energy. has got to very good oh oh oh oh i just got to that's not going to oh oh oh it's got to that the bank 00000200 activists are taking part in the demonstration near conan. many reporters are also here.

tony and his friends with friday's for future are among the protesters. the police don't intervene. guns i bet that yeah well. i'm not a. yeah. i thought it. was the protesters approach the mine the tensions rise. the police are worried that the activists will try to break through the police barrier. that says you for this for a future along. the ground rule for fridays for future in poland is that all or activities are legal. this was even in terms of civil disobedience we stick to what's legal. we believe that way will have the biggest reach and the best chances of actually changing things in poland yes this is this. whole movement shares this

principle that all those. we don't break the rules. then those on the surface of. their official demonstration stops outside the mine. on the other side the illegal one organized by the camp for climate action and extinction rebellion breaks through the police lines. in poland and elsewhere the activists are far from sure that they can really bring about change. a lot of missing is a move where you feel powerless but when you look over there and see how many people have gathered then you realize we might be in with a chance it's the elections it's we're trying to see in that number that all these great people have come together but of course when you look at this vast area of protests can feel insignificant such as them just absolute bullshit on that.

back in dortmund it's friday strike day. the 1400 activists who come to dortmund from all over germany. have divided up into groups. they don't want to disrupt public transport. i. i. was. i the german wing of the movement has very specific demands the activists want germany to phase out coal by 2030 and to have made a 100 percent switch to renewable energy by 2035. i think it's a i. do not i want to start by saying i'm here even though it's school

holidays and to be honest i wouldn't mind taking a vacation. but we can't afford to waste time even though the politicians have all taken vacations. like. i was the they do. if the demonstrations had been held on saturdays or sundays no one would have paid them any attention there would have just been a bunch of kids demonstrating in germany or wherever and no t.v. station would have bothered reporting it. because they're missing school people are paying attention that's how it works that somebody. loses a lot i was. that. i.

as soon as the demonstrations over laina and john luka head to the station. dana is spending the summer into railing from one climate camp to another. the next is in lozano. later helped organize it. and some think you know about the school strikes he's at school. so are we. there on fridays aren't day i'm not against them but in my opinion the strike should be held at the weekend and not during school hours school's important let's face it. that's what this is how that. school is used as leverage against us we're striking to demand something be done that's i mean this is out of sight but if you don't go to school you're messing up

your future going to school is also doing something for your future. you know just so that future we supposedly won't have if we don't go to school is threatened anyway by climate change. nonsense this country it's not nonsense and look at the scientific studies you'll realize pretty quickly that it's not nonsense commissionaire this country must you know this and how will you be able to get any qualifications if you don't go to school shows like missing 2 hours on a friday isn't a big deal out of your absences will be noted on your report card i don't care you don't care that doesn't matter now it doesn't matter if you're absences are noted on your report card sorry i can't talk about this and all of the chips this is 1st and came back think feel i feel like i've learned so much from the climate strikes about organizing. about science and chaffed and i was so her argument doesn't work

for me yeah finished i don't mind yeah yeah i feel the climate strikes me loads of life skills but if you create more than a lens and 12 years of school since we're shown through many shows. and loads on $400.00 young environmental. activists are attending the smile for future conference their aim is to lay out their demands in a formal fridays for a future declaration. a message for governments and political institutions. the congress is being held in the university of lowe's on. leno is in a work group with students from 6 countries. there formulating the movement's strategic goals these will be included in the declaration here everything that's in here as a victory so that we. how we were in the right so

we're talking about 2 different things because you're talking about having broken group identity and a declaration and i don't agree on that. service to create the sentences promotional structure of the to go. to the book to go but then to do that's one of the options we could also do is create to go so well it's national structure documents i want i don't see. this that says but there are delegations from 38 countries. from the outset the movement has had the support of respected climate experts one of them is john pascal fun. vice chair of the intergovernmental panel on climate change from 2008 to 2015. thanks we had many things. became.

very easy to. change which presented to. specially when these morning. these young people are very well informed on the climate crisis more so than political decision makers in the general public documents a. as to me my marriage the climate change conference in qatar and i could see she was able to give very detailed answers to scientific questions there is no politician can do that she's or read the literature of the faith a lot a lot of young people are familiar with the i.p.c.c. reports. thank you for what they've done thank you for what you are doing i would like to thank great. teacher. who was she is not a leader. she doesn't want to be a leader but she longs to strike and she still gets. every

moments the international. news for you she has become the. gratitude the star of the fridays for future movement is also here she sits with the other participants. all the movement is nonhierarchical and democratic and every vote counts equally. from my laina presents the results of her work group. in the declaration day i was values and principles that too much so that but we want to move on to that other people know about it said. the participants are seeking consensus on all the decisions the 1st vote is on the introduction to the declaration of the proposal a collapse of or a society in ecosystems is on the horizon and son is really about what

happens in the next month and years this is the future of humankind or elected extinction is a possible outcome. of this is the clear ition intent. those who agree wave their hands. of position. and i'm just saying this we approve of this if we are able to make some just grace and changes and that's what we want to do just don't get angry and. i don't think anybody's. but of course the word you can be changed in the whole thing can be changed and you move probably change still is there any strong opposition against this proposal.

good it was a. thank you. the next day the students demonstrating lows on. the school strikes polarize opinion. which may well be why they've succeeded in sparking debate about climate protection in many countries. playing as younger sister and her mother are also taking part today. that they sell this out stuff that i felt to sell. at. the club of the events requires a global perspective to stand together and serve there is a bus near me or something which. may not do you think you'll see it feel safe and

it does a lot herself she's very independent she doesn't always give us a choice that's when the discussion starts and they're not always polite or constructive. and sometimes i think the climate strikes have the last word and i don't think that can be difficult and that in the morning with the. new school a couple of times i've called her teacher and asked is it really all right as far as her schooling is concerned. he told me he let me know if it started to become an issue for me to. be in here that. this this and that is active the guys i'd like to keep doing this is much as possible it has priority over school. in this. you know if in this lifetime we're running out of time. if maybe it's time to me we need to see

a reduction in emissions by 2020. i am. i'm september 20th in berlin. global strike today. is in a hurry. i say i don't. miss evidence i have to go back on stage and prepare what i'm going to say i mean you're not missing much time and i think this is. the student movement also has crossed generational support. we've been complaining for years that young people are a political but now driving change we need the courage in addition to mood and the i'm beats you want to do you don't like it and so you know.

wrote. 23 year old student louise annoyed about the best known activist in the german fridays for future movement as one of the co organizers of the demonstration in berlin. yes we're here and we're loud because you're stealing our future. yes yes. like all the young activists here louisa has devoted her summer holiday to the movement. yes i've got that yes yes that's the best band that the world is changing rapidly we're witnessing things shift all the time not just the climate but also questions of justice about what we can expect from economic systems and democracies and that have and it goes hand in hand with the huge push for

emancipation that the climate justice movement is giving rise to all this must be evil. yes ma'am listen to me today we've made history 270000 people demonstrated in berlin today. we broke the record in germany this is the biggest protest in german history. i've. never i never need to see you next time i sense a 100 and let it go then i want to see politicians taking action to face time me when i think about my future on this planet i can't not do something else and when i can't let my future go down the drain i can't let that happen he says. around the world over 4000000 people took to the streets and the movement is growing these young activists will soon be eligible to vote and can't afford to ignore them.

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